December 18, 1981 - Jan Robinson and Rosemary Martin, co-directors and psychotherapists at Twin Cities Therapy Clinic, answer listeners' questions about coping with the holidays, broadcast live.
November 12, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman presents audio profile within the cockpit of a Republic Airways commercial airline during air traffic controller strike.
June 26, 1981 - Dr. Gough Reinhardt, physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California; and Dr. Frank Barnaby, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, debate at the Science Town Hall Meeting titled, “Nuclear Weapons Technology: Do We Need It?” The meeting was held at the St. Paul-Ramsey Arts and Science Auditorium and presented guests' differing views of nuclear weapons technology and the value and uses of nuclear science. MPR’s Rich Dietman moderated debate.
June 15, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman describes the scene in south Minneapolis in the aftermath of a tornado passing over Lake St. & Chicago Ave.
May 30, 1981 - Listener response with Dave Durenberger and also Rich Dietman as host.
March 31, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews St. Paul native Gerry Spiess, who talks about his solo voyage across the Atlantic in a boat he built himself named "Yankee Girl". Spiess also discusses his plans for his next journey with "Yankee Girl", this time across the Pacific ocean with stops in Hawaii, Samoa, and Australia.
January 22, 1981 - Dr. Bevan French, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s discipline scientist for planetary materials, discusses the space program. Topics include data from Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft, and the new space shuttle program. French also answers listener questions. Dr. French analyzed rocks brought back from the moon. He also helped train NASA Apollo astronauts in geology.
December 23, 1980 - MPR’s Rich Dietman reports on immigrants use of traditional folk medicine. Inside the International Clinic at St. Paul Ramsey Hospital, western medical professionals are trying to better understand the different medical approaches and treatments.
November 17, 1980 - Interview with Dr. Paul MacCready, who designed and constructed the gossamer albatross, a human-powered flight vehicle. Rich Dietman hosts a live call-in program with MacCready about his invention, which is now on display at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
September 27, 1980 - MPR’s Tom Meersman interviews Hamid Algar, professor of Islamic studies and history at the University of California at Berkeley. Algar discusses the Iranian revolution, and outlines what he thinks are the greatest misconceptions the United States has of the revolution and the Ayatollah Khomeini.